Q. As the winter was coming to an end, the Ducati garage saw a high number of engineers watching around.

JL: That's something I would have liked to change at Yamaha. I used to see Marquez's garage full of engineers. I asked for that but it never came. At Ducati they treat me with a kind of admiration; at Yamaha I felt just like any other employee.

I could be an important piece of the thing, yeah, but at Ducati they respect and admire me a lot. They know they hired me in order to develop a better machine and to take a step ahead in performance.